Done!

I've finished preparing, practising, and fine-tuning the presentation for Syke tomorrow evening - so all that remains to do in preparation for tomorrow is packing my stuff (including the computer, of course, and the presentation on an extra USB stick, just in case).

Because I was curious, I looked at my time tracker and did the math on how long it actually took me to put together the presentation. It was a nice, fun, and good thing to revisit all the stuff, and to be fair it was an unusual type of presentation because usually I can re-use or adapt already existing slides... but yes, it did eat up quite a few hours.

As a general rule, academic-style presentations get a small monetary honoration. As a second part of that general rule, that is never enough to cover the actual time invested in preparing and practising the presentation - even if you're fairly quick about it. Third part of the general rule: As these presentation invitations usually mean going somewhere to meet colleagues, being able to present your work, and then connecting and discussing and sort of having something like a mini-conference, nobody really minds.

I'm rather happy with the whole thing too, now that it's all prepped and set, and hope the listeners will be, too. 

Also it made me finally put together the individual images of the corded skirt for the panorama picture:

and that, due to some reason, makes me really happy as well.

As I'll be travelling tomorrow and on Friday, there will be blog silence - see you again on Monday!